Don't travel north. It's hard to sleep up there.
I remember when our son and his family moved north of Seattle. The boys were little and Todd would say they had a hard time falling asleep because it was light outside long after it said bedtime on the clock. On our first visit to their new home I helped to make some room darkening curtains for a bedroom.
Well we've been "up north" now for several weeks now. First in the Seattle area and then farther north up into Canada.....and my sleep patterns are really messed up. It DOES get light really early in the morning and my eyes are open by 4:30 - 5:00....almost two hours earlier than Wisconsin normal. And it's still light outside well after 9:00 in the evening. I'm not sure how late it has to be before it's fully dark because we were usually tucked in and sleeping by about 9:30-10:00.
Frequently we would remind each other that we should stay up, sit outside and look at the stars at our campsites.....they would be beautiful with so little ground clutter and no city lights to interfere. But we never did. After a day of travel, or hiking or just being in the fresh air we were not going to win any contest with the setting sun......it moved too slowly and we were just too tired.
So we never saw the sky full of stars.
We plan to visit friends in Alaska in August.....I'm buying a sleep mask.
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